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Detroit's education gap (and ideas to fix it) ft. Tinu Usoro, 482 Forward

Whether it’s public or charter schools, Detroit students are fighting an uphill battle. Between trasportation, transparency, and even dealing with extreme temperatures – anything involving the future of Detroit hinges on Detroit’s education system. Tinu Usoro from 482 Forward joins me at the table in Techtown to talk about not just the problems, but ideas to help fix these issues. The Detroit podcast rundown: 00:55 – What is 482 Forward? 02:38 – The impact of bad weather on educatio...

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PODCAST: Starting A Micro Charter School In Detroit With Drew Schantz Of Venture School

[smart_track_player url=”http://traffic.libsyn.com/dailydetroithappyhour/DD-23-Happy_hour_Schantz_mixdown.mp3″ social_gplus=”false” social_linkedin=”true” social_email=”true” twitter_username=”TheDailyDetroit” ] Drew Schantz is the founder of Venture School, a nonprofit charter looking to get their doors open in the fall of next year. It’s concept is a “micro charter” so-called because there will be 35 students or so in each grade level. In the meantime, Schantz is running a series of pop-up...

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Their Charter School Was In Debt, So Teachers Won't Get Paid

Furious teachers at a recently shuttered Detroit charter school were notified Wednesday that they won’t be paid thousands of dollars they earned during the last school year. Teachers at the Michigan Technical Academy had contracts that required the school to pay them through the summer for work they did during the school year. But the school’s management company, Matchbook Learning, alerted teachers in an email Wednesday that the money would instead go to pay off the school’s debts. “Last Fr...

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Three Detroit-Area Charter Schools To Close In June, But Not All Parents Know

At least three Detroit-area charter schools will close in June after years of low test scores, leaving hundreds of families to scramble for new schools — including some who haven’t yet been notified. The schools set to close include Woodward Academy, one of Detroit’s oldest and most established charter schools. It opened near downtown Detroit in 1996. Also closing are the Starr Detroit Academy, which is located just across the city line in Harper Woods but serves primarily Detroit children, an...

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Detroit's first intentionally diverse charter school might not stay that way

It was four days into the two-week enrollment period for the new Detroit Prep charter school and Kyle Smitley was starting to worry. Smitley, the school’s co-founder, had opened Detroit Prep in September with grand ambitions of building the city’s first truly diverse charter school. She had embraced an idea that’s gained momentum across the country as educators have increasingly acknowledged that the nation’s segregated schools are hurting children and communities, and had managed to recruit...

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Inside A Detroit Charter School On The Chopping Block That Says It's Worth A Second Look

On paper, the Michigan Technical Academy looks exactly like the kind of school state officials are planning to shut down. The charter school in northwest Detroit has posted test scores in the bottom 1 percent in the state in recent years, and fewer than 5 percent of fourth-graders passed last year’s state math exam. The scores mean the school could be shuttered under a new law designed to rescue students in long-struggling schools from a culture of failure. The school will find out its fate...

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Most Detroit Schools Are Off The Chopping Block For Now, But 5 Charter Schools Could Still Close

Dozens of low-performing Detroit schools that faced possible closure next spring may have gotten a stay of execution from Gov. Rick Snyder this week — but some city charter schools are still on the hot seat. Snyder has said low-performing schools should close. But an aide said this week that the governor had accepted the opinion of attorneys with the Miller Canfield law firm: New legislation requiring the state to shutter struggling Detroit schools does not actually apply to Detroit’s primary...

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